Fitted Witney Horse Blanket

Product

For our more traditional customers we also offer a leather front buckle as an alternative. This option still comes with a fillet string but does not have cross over surcingles.

We cut all our rugs 2" deeper than standard to ensure that there is plenty of coverage for deeper chested, athletic horses. The neck is snug to maximise warmth in the chest and neck area and the rig is well darted over the quarters to ensure a good fit and to keep the large muscles of the horse's hind quarters warm. As many of our customers hunt, we also make the surcingles over long in case you travel tacked up to the meet.

Please contact us if you require a rug making to you own specification.

Provenance

Provenance

Made from traditional, pure wool, English horse blanket. The pure new wool in the blanket is woven on a traditional oversized loom before being milled in to give a finished weight of 700gsm. It's then washed, dryed, combed and brushed a number of times to produce the soft pile whilst retaining its hardwearing qualities. We then cut, sew and bind the blanket to form the final fitted horse blanket.

We use the best quality buckles and fittings on our horse blankets. These are all supplied to us by Abbey England, holders of the Royal Warrant for the supply of saddlery material to HM The Queen. In addition all our binding and webbing is woven for us in the UK by Bowmer Bond Narrow Fabrics. As they have been in business since 1795 they know quite a lot about this!

Early's of Witney was the iconic English blanket manufacturer providing "Incomparable quality since 1669". Sadly, they have now ceased trading and Friday Fox Ltd has acquired many of the old machines used by Earlys to make up their blankets.